International Conference CfP: The Business of Worldmaking: New Perspectives on Liminal Actors in Postcolonial Development Cooperation

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Koper, Slovenia, 19-20 September 2024 Governments in Africa, Asia and South America, most of which achieved political independence in the decades following World War Two, forged a whole set of transnational developmental entanglements, with the aim of breaking with the unidirectionality of development thinking and practice that underpinned (neo)colonial dependencies and capital-led globalization. Read more

Lecture „From Dubrovnik to Istanbul: The Evolution of a Catholic Diplomatic Family in the Ottoman Empire“

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Tuesday, February 13, 2024, 5:30 pm – 6:45 pm Speaker Vjeran Kursar (University of Zagreb) From Dubrovnik to Istanbul: The Evolution of a Catholic Diplomatic Family in the Ottoman Empire The house of Chirico was established in Istanbul by Luca Chirico (1688-1749), the consul of the Republic of Dubrovnik, the first dragoman of England, the knight of Saint Sepulcher of Jesus, a well-known person in Constantinopolitan Levantine social life and an affluent merchant and entrepreneur. Read more
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